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'light-weight plastic material that will n are SIGRID T. A. NELSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ELECTRIC CANDLE.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29,1913.

Application filed December 17, 1912. Serial No. 737,201.

To all whom t may concern: v

Be it known that I, SIGRID T. A. NELSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Statel a new and useful' of Illinois, have invented of which Improvement in Electric Candles; the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of electric candles in which the body is made, to resemble that of a candle, of solid non-combustible material extending from a suit-able base and carryin on its outer end an incandescentl electric lamp adapted to be electrically connected, yfor burning it, with a source of electric current.

The primary object of my invention is to provide candles, in the class referred to, of a construction which shall adapt them for use as Christmas-tree tapers, by rendering them cheap to manufacture and adapting them to be readily and stably fastened. to the tree-branches.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure lis a perspective view showing my improved article in exaggerated size and illustrating its application to a branch of a Christmas- Q'shows the article by a more enlarged and broken view in vertical sectional elevation.

The body 3 of the candle is formed, by molding, of plaster of Paris, or analogous harden by exposure .to the atmosphere. It is `made in a suitable mold giving it the external appearance of a wax taper, the material being mixed with suitable coloring matter, as desired, to cause the body to correspond in colors with the various colors of such tapers. The material is molded into a sheet-nieta1 socketli and about insulated conducting wires 5, 5, passing through the socket and through a sheet-metal 'cup 6 about it, the cup and socket forming a base like an ornamental Christmas-tree candleholder; and the cup has rigidly fastened to its bottom a pair of spring-closed clamping jaws 7 for gripping, in a usual manner, a branch of the tree, as shown. The wires 5 are connected with the filament in the bulb of an incandescent electric neck-portion of which the body 3 is also molded to cause the lamp-bulb to project beyond it. The wires 5 of .a number of the candles sufficient for ornamenting a tree,

may be bunched near their distal ends into one or more cables and united in a socket or sockets, in a well-known manner, for connection in the usual way with one or more electric-lamp lixtures or other source of electric-current supply (not shown). insulated wires extend in separated condition, however, to suliicient length beyond `the candles,to adapt them to be twisted around the branches, as represented in Fig. l', thereby to the tapers, with the advantage of rendering the latter more stable on the'branches and supplementing the hold thereon of the clamps 7.

What I claim as new by Letters Patent is- An' electric Christmas-tree candle, comprising a molded body of plastic material, an incandescent electric lamp havingits neck-portion molded into one end of said 75 body and a base into which the opposite end of said body is molded, electric conducting wires connected with said lamp and embedded in the molded body to extend beyond said opposite end in to4 be wound about a tree-branch, and a clamp on the base for fastening the candle on such branch.

siGRID T. A, NELsoN.

In presence of- O. C. Avisos, J. G. ANDERSON.

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